People when semantic shift

People when semantic shift

So far there’s nothing I’ve been age-checked for that I can’t go without. If I need to, I’ll get a VPN or Death Stranding 2, but there’s no way I’m uploading my ID or portrait for any of these checks.

Just another day for Crusader Kings

How is that a mistake?

And when she says that, she doesn’t mean finding a supplier. Once you put the tweezers down, you’ll never find them again

I’m very glad not to be working for Meta support

First and hopefully last

Yeah, this was meant to be the only good thing about Brexit

Deine ich_iel Zuhausis würden es bestimmt merken, wenn du aufhören würdest Maimais zu pfostieren

360° “back” around to dinosaurs confirms that birds are still just dinosaurs

What

This just made me realise that the old “unplugged controller” trick doesn’t work anymore. Granted, you can do it less conspicuously now, but it’s not as fun

Okay, but sperm literally comes from the Greek for seed. Semen comes from the Latin for seed. Seed is used as a euphemism for semen in English. The exact science might not work out here, but humans have been using seed as an analogy for sperm/semen for thousands of years at least

That’s brilliant, I hope it’s true

I was considering doing a masters in Germanic linguistics (graduated last year). I would’ve enjoyed it, but I have a job now that lets me actually save up money, while still allowing me to indulge my academic interests in my spare time, and I’m certain I made the right choice. I know for a fact that at the end of the day, doing a masters would have ultimately meant one or two years’ delay to the start of my career and basically no advantage in the job market. Maybe this goes more for humanities students (although I imagine it’s also the case for a lot of STEM students), but I think this video by Dr Jackson Crawford is a really good sympathetic and pragmatic approach for people considering going into academia.

Oldest trick in the book

Chocolate on the floor :(

Bouba and kiki

This is how our lizard overlords felt when humans first achieved flight